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When I try to take a screenshot, entire desktop is crashing. I tried disabling this extension and screenshots work as usual. Can you please fix this?

As the title says, every time i unlock the screen the extension crashes and the extension manger reports the error: "actor is null". I have to refresh the shell to re-enable the extension.
I'm using Arch Linux, Gnome 40 and not using Wayland.
log | grep "blur-my-shell":

log.txt

It's possible that this is a duplicate of Extension bug "actor is null" with a different theme #51

With the way it is now, the text from my panel blends into the background. It would be nice to be able to change the panel settings independently from the other options to be able to alleviate this.

Hi,
@aunetx Thank your for you sweet extension; I really like using it!

However, I came across some bugs that I want to mention.

Extension version: Latest Master branch
System:

• Ubuntu 20.10
• gnome-shell 3.38.1 @ wayland session
• GPU: AMD RX 580 @ amdgpu driver

In general, the settings in the Extension app do not seem to always apply correctly; I was not able to figure out a pattern yet. Although one problem always reappears: The Brightness level seems to reset to some "default" value after each reboot (or maybe also logout/login; would have to investigate), although in the extension's settings, the value is still at the chosen setting. See the Screenshot as an example:

I like it when the Brightness is all the way up to 1,00. However, after the reboot, the blur is much darker and seems therefore reset to some default value.

Could you investigate this behaviour? Maybe this problem also relates to the generell problem of settings that seem to "randomly" apply once set.

Thank you in advance! Keep up the great work!

For some reason, when I connect my second monitor, the bottom of the panel is in the center of the screen (or almost so).
My primary monitor has a resolution of 1366x768 and the secondary 1920x1080.
When I set my primary monitor to 1920x1080 the panel is not centered, but it is not blurred.

I apologize for my terrible English

As you can see in the below screenshot, blur in the overview is applied properly to the primary monitor, but the secondary monitor retains the default gray background. Btw, I also was one of the first to build a blurring extension in Gnome, so I may come help out with the project if I have time :)

The folders look kind of out of place currently, would be nice if they have transparency and blur too

I'm using this, master compiled from here on Ubuntu 20.10 with Gnome 3.38.
My machine has a Nvidia GPU, mentioning this for obv reasons.

Basically when I open an app like gnome tweaks for example and move the mouse around within the app, elements of the app that would animate completely disappear and I can see my background through the chunks that have disappeared.

I can't take a screenshot as it makes gnome shell crash, sorry :(

Ajouter le blur sur les menus de la top bar.
Merci.

With the extension off and using the default Adwaita theme, my panel looks like this (notice it is black and has rounded corners):

Blur my Shell adds transparency and removes the special rounded corner style that Adwaita has:

In overview, the panel is transparent (or at least not black), with or without the extension:

That said, it would be really cool to be able to turn off the transparency when not in the overview.

Thanks a lot for the extension!

The blur applied to the dock flickers at times and then goes back to normal when hovered on the dock.

Hello,

Thanks for this extension, it's close to being really good.
Couple of UI bugs:
The clock on the top panel of Gnome shows a different darker background on that specific div, which ruins the blur effect unfortunately. Pic attached. Same for other artefact on top panel such as the window title.

Also on the dash-to-dock extension this works quite well but I got a weird bug where a shadow of the icon remains after I quit focus of it. It appears with the focus, that is expected, but remains after leaving the icon focus. Pic attached, in the pic my mouse is not hovering the chrome icon, yet it is shown as is.

I will have a look at the code as well, I'm a developer, but I don't really know how you made it work.

Anyway thanks a lot !!

Hi,
I have a laptop that is attached to an external monitor. When the external monitor is disabled or the laptop lid is closed (the external monitor is the main screen) everything works great.
The problem appears only when both screens are active. The dash is blurred correctly on the laptop screen:

but on the external monitor blur fades away gradually (the left side of the dash has no blur at all), and the brightness value isn't correct either:

OS Name: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Gnome Version: 3.36.8
Windowing System: X11

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1160/dash-to-panel/ is my favorite extension out there, and it lets you set its panel transparency too. However, I never do so because I would need blurring for it to be usable with any wallpaper.

Your extension could make this possible ;)

The dash usually has a light grey background, but with this extension, it's fully transparent. I think a semi-transparent background would look better. If this is intentional, I've also noticed that the background isn't restored after the extension is disabled.

Before enabling:

After enabling:

After disabling:

so everything works great after last update, I'm using it on a 2in1 tablet, the blur on the topbar does cover the entire width after going back to landscape mode.

Hello, I am opening bug as per request.

I have attached 2 screenshots showing an issue relating to setting a sigma value. When it is above 0 then you do not see a background on secondary monitor, at least for me.

Please see 2 screenshots:

Kind regards
Peter

Bonjour,
I use these:

• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/41/permanent-notifications/
• https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1080/transparent-notification/

However, as you can see it looks a bit like unreadable crap:

...it would be technologically very cool if your extension could replace the "transparent notifications" extension by providing transparency AND blur for notifications. Just stating a wish here ;)

Instead of just overriding background of the top panel I was wondering if you could leave the gtk background and add the blur behind it as you did for the dash, so then like I could set the transparency directly in the gtk css and then we could also have a shadow behind it which would be sweet.

it would be be neat to show the blur background when sliding through workspaces,

The blur effect has a rectangular shape rather than the curved edges of the Dock and/or panel (as set by themes/shells).
Is this something that can be fixed so that the effect follows the shape of those items?

Thank you.

It would be nice to have an option to not add transparency to the top bar when not in overview mode.
I like the black solid top bar and it transparent is terrible with light wallpaper because of the top bar white font color.

Hi, first of all, I want to say "blur-my-shell" looks to be a visually very pleasing gnome-shell extension in the making. Unfortunately, I've noticed some very glaring artifacts on the blurred top panel:

1. By pressing or hovering over any AppIndicator, any created tint or another effect for it, remains rendered on the blurred top bar. An example is shown below:
   https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26392564/115163810-e797af80-a0b3-11eb-9f19-55252d1872ae.mp4

2. Window near the top panel creates artifacts as shown here:
   https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/26392564/115163856-26c60080-a0b4-11eb-9882-5882992694c0.mp4

3. Clock once every minute renders a highlight around its text. Wanted to add some screenshots for this, but shell crashed while trying to take them :D

My setup:

• Ubuntu 20.04
• GNOME Shell 3.36.7
• "blur-my-shell" version 6

Im using the Github version for Gnome 40. Already tested the version on extensions.gnome.org and it had the same Error. Settings menu works but it doesn't apply the background blur. Already logged out and in again and still didn't work

`The settings of extension blur-my-shell@aunetx had an error:

TypeError: this._sigma_scale is null

Stack trace:

_init@/home/francisco97/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/blur-my-shell@aunetx/prefs.js:31:9
buildPrefsWidget@/home/francisco97/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/blur-my-shell@aunetx/prefs.js:133:12
_init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:207:40
OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:122:28
asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
@/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17

`
I don't know what this means, I'm using Manjaro Gnome, the shell is 3.38 and all the gnome apps are version 40.

It worked flawlessly in gnome40 until a few minutes ago, Fedora34 came up with a system update, and now blur-my-shell is disabled this.background_parent.get_parent() is null

When I use dynamic timed wallpapers, the previous image will still be blurred later in the day after the background changes

See https://redd.it/muxj77 for more infos

I think we should be able to change the overview brightness, when I remove the dark overview it looks so much better. A more transparent gradient would also look good but I've only gotten it to be all in or all out right now.

versus

It seems to me that if you call disable() in panel.js, it won't actually disconnect the signals at:

This would cause a potential bug where if a user were to disable and re-enable the panel setting it would create additional connections which has a performance implication.

It seems to me like the solutions to this at a glance would be to delete and recreate the _panel_blur object upon disable, disconnect the signals manually, or provide some kind of interface with the Connections class to disable all signals from a particular source (e.g. panel class). I am looking in to this as we speak.

There is no animation when going out of the overview, even though "animate overview" is checked.

Hello,

facing the following issue while trying to activate the extension after installing:

Gtk.BuilderError: /home/user/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/blur-my-shell@aunetx/prefs.ui:18:36 Invalid property: GtkGrid.border_width

Stack trace:
  _init@/home/janus/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/blur-my-shell@aunetx/prefs.js:28:17
  wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/_legacy.js:83:27
  buildPrefsWidget@/home/janus/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/blur-my-shell@aunetx/prefs.js:13:18
  _init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:209:40
  OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:122:28
  asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
  run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
  main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
  run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
  start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
  @/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17
  

Using Fedora 34 Beta & Gnome 40

As of now, this blur takes the shape of a normal dock, and adapts itself to dash to dock's settings. There is an extension that I particularly love to use, called Floating Dock. However Blur My Shell doesn't like it. I would appreciate it if you could add floating dock mode, where you can add rounded corners, and allow it to float off the bottom of the screen.

Hi,
@aunetx Thank your for you sweet extension; I really like using it!

However, I came across some bugs that I want to mention.

Extension version: Latest Master branch
System:

Ubuntu 20.10
gnome-shell 3.38.1 @ wayland session
GPU: AMD RX 580 @ amdgpu driver

In order to improve productivity of my gnome-shell experience, I use the dash-to-panel extension as my daily driver (see https://github.com/home-sweet-gnome/dash-to-panel).

I mainly found two problems here:

1. When using your extension in combination with dash-to-panel extension, I way able to only once have the panel blurred aswell. However, when deactivating dash-to-panel, the "default" gnome-shell panel was displayed blurred as it should.

2. The one time I was able to get blur combined with dash-to-panel's panel to work (unfortunately could not reproduce it), the panel was blurred only on my main screen; the panel on the secondary screen did not get blurred.

Could you investigate this behaviour? Maybe this problem also relates to the generell problem of settings that seem to "randomly" only randomly apply once set (see #9 for details). It would be great whether the problem resides in your extension's code or maybe in dash-to-panel's.

Thank you in advance! Keep up the great work!

Hi! I have installed the extension on a fresh Fedora 34 install with GNOME 40, and although it works fine, i can't get to the extension preferences. When i try to open the configs dialog, i see this message:

Error: Type name PrefsWidget is already registered

Am I doing something wrong, or it is a bug?

Stack trace:

Error: Type name PrefsWidget is already registered

Stack trace:
  _init/GObject.Object._classInit@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GObject.js:444:27
  _init/Gtk.Widget._classInit@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gtk.js:74:32
  registerClass@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/GObject.js:78:22
  @/home/dave/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/blur-my-shell@aunetx/prefs.js:10:29
  _init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:206:33
  OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:122:28
  asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
  run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
  main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
  run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
  start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
  @/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17
  

Hi,
@aunetx Thank your for you sweet extension; I really like using it!

This time no bug, just a recommendation:

There is another extension "in the market" for quite some time now and its latest branch also has enablement for gnome-shell 3.38 (so it works for gnome-shell 3.38): gnome-shell-extension-blyr (https://github.com/yozoon/gnome-shell-extension-blyr).

Maybe both of you can benefit from each other's code 👍

Keep up the great work!

When the wallpaper is changed, overview's background is not changed.

It seems like the changed notification is not fired on Wayland, I might need to look at other ways to detect a wallpaper change.

The transparency settings of dash to panel should be either modified or not. Currently dash to panel needs to be manually set to transparent for blur to be seen, and when panel blur is disabled in blur-my-shell, it gets set to the original color regardless of if transparency is enable in dash to panel or not. This needs to be fixed eventually (low priority)

It's easier to see in the screenshot, the blur effect only works for one monitor, plus the part of the wallpaper being blurred in the primary one is the one pertaining to the secondary monitor.

Hello,
would be possible to have an option to select a different background (image) for behind the workspaces and app launcher (but not on thumbnails picker)?

Would address much of the issues caused by #31

Hello. I installed this extension. But extension not opening. And i look #37. It looks the same as my problem.

When this extension is turned on I can't lock the screen. The title bar and dock still work but i can't interact with running programs anymore, however they do still work

OS: Pop os 20.04 (based on Ubuntu 20.04)

The desktop blur breaks when switching wallpapers. I noticed it because I use an automatic wallpaper switcher extension like Random Wallpaper or Bing Wallpapers. Every time it syncs, it breaks the desktop blur.

option to have overview blur only the panel sims to be a bit too buggy at the moment

• Fedora 33
• Gnome-shell 3.38.1
• Blur-my-shell 2

When hitting Super the dash flickers during the transition. The same happens when closing the overview again.

works fine when i switch to a 1080p resolution or use dynamic panel blur, but it's really glitchy even with artifacts hacks on

The extension still does not support Gnome 40:

• no GTK4 preferences windows
• no idea how it looks in it, as overview/dash changed